Plesiadapis
Plesiadapis is one of the oldest known primate-like mammal genera which existed about 58–55 million years ago in North America and Europe. Plesiadapis means "near-Adapis", which is a reference to the adapiform primate of the Eocene period, Adapis. Plesiadapis tricuspidens, the type specimen, is named after the three cusps present on its upper incisors.
| Plesiadapis Temporal range: | |
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| Reconstructed skeleton of P. cooki at the Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Brussels | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Plesiadapiformes |
| Family: | †Plesiadapidae |
| Genus: | †Plesiadapis Gervais, 1877 |
| Type species | |
| †Plesiadapis tricuspidens | |
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